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Anne-Marie Duff, Billy Howle and Will Poulter to Narrate Upcoming Classics on Audible

Anne Marie Duff (four time BAFTA-nominee, Shameless, Sex Education, Suffragette), Billy Howle (Dunkirk, Star Wars: Episode IX, On Chesil Beach) and Will Poulter (BAFTA-winner, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Midsommar, The Maze Runner) have been announced as the narrators of three nineteenth century classics coming soon to Audible.

Released on 19th March 2020, The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins is narrated by rising star Billy Howle. Best known for his roles alongside Saoirse Ronan in Dominic Cooke’s On Chesil Beach, as Rey’s father in Star Wars: Episode IX and most recently as Caden Finch, starring alongside Richard Gere and Helen McCrory in the BBC’s MotherFatherSon. Regarded as among the first detective novels, The Woman In White was published in 1959, and centres on the unequal position of married women in British law at the time. It was first published serially in Charles’ Dickens weekly magazine. The Woman in White is available for now on Audible.

Released on 9th April 2020, Thomas Hardy’s Tess Of The d’Urbervilles will be narrated by four time BAFTA-nominee and Olivier Award-nominee, Anne-Marie Duff. Best known for her role as the headstrong Fiona Gallagher in Paul Abbott’s BAFTA-winning Shameless, she also led the BBC’s The Virgin Queen and starred alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Kristin Scott Thomas in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Nowhere Boy. First published in 1981, Hardy’s classic centres on Tess Durbeyfield, and her struggles against the hypocritical social standards of the Victorian age. Tess of the d’Urbervilles is available for pre-order now on Audible.

Released on 21st May 2020, Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky will be narrated by BAFTA-winner, Will Poulter. Best known for his roles in Charlie Brooker’s sinister, interactive Bandersnatch and Ari Aster’s cult horror Midsommar, Poulter will narrate Dostoevsky’s acclaimed 1866 psychological novel about an impoverished ex-student who plots to kill a pawnbroker for her money. Crime and Punishment is available for pre-order now on Audible.

Crime and Punishment, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and The Woman in White will join a wealth of classics narrated by world-class talent on Audible, including: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice narrated by Rosamund Pike; Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre narrated by Thandie Newton; Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop narrated by Jessie Buckley; Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South narrated by Juliet Stevenson; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal; and Louisa M Alcott’s Little Women, narrated by an all-star cast including Laura Dern.